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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Seattle Mariners have called up catcher/first baseman Jesus&amp;nbsp;Montero&amp;nbsp;from Triple A, the team announced&amp;nbsp;Thursday.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Montero, 25, was once a top prospect in the Yankees\u2019 organization and was traded to Seattle as part of the deal that sent Michael Pineda to New York.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After playing in 135 games in his first season with the Mariners in 2012, Montero played only 29 games in 2013 due to injuries and a 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. He then showed up to spring training in 2014 40 pounds overweight.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In August 2014 while on a rehab assignment, Montero went after a Mariners scout with a bat after the scout taunted him with an ice cream sandwich. Montero was suspended for the rest of the season and the scout\u2019s contract was not renewed.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;Brett Gardner named as ASG replacement for injured Alex Gordon&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Montero reported to spring training this year looking considerably slimmer&amp;nbsp;and batted .332 with 15 home runs, 12 doubles and five triples in 84 Triple A games this season. He batted .545 with nine extra-base hits in his last 11 games.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Montero came up as a catcher and caught in roughly half of the games he played in the majors, though he has been playing almost exclusively at first base in the minors.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Mariners are among the worst offensive teams in baseball, with a major-league low .231 team batting average. They have scored the fourth-fewest runs per game this season. Last month, the team re-assigned hitting coach Howard Johnson to the minor leagues and hired franchise legend Edgar Martinez as his replacement.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Dan Gartland&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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